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HORSE BLANKET PIN.

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GEORGE ALBERT WRIGHT AND MEDWIN LAURENCE JACOBY, OF BELLEVUE, OHIO; SAID JAOOBY ASSIGNOR OF `ONE-EIGHTH TO JOHN AUBREY WRIGHT,

OF SAME PLACE. K

HORSE-BLANKET PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,740, dated October 1894.

Application led March 27, 1894.- Serial No. 505,333. (No nodel.)

' a simple, cheap and effective pin for holding` v a blanket in place upon a horse.

Ourimproved pin is formed of a single piece of spring wire, with one end tapered or formed into a point, and the other end formed into a keeper, While the intermediate portion of the wire is bent to form two spring coils having several convolutions and a spring tongue extending up fromthe convolutions'alongside the ends. The point is adapted to be inserted in the edge of a blanket and heldinplace by the keeper, while the spring tongue is adapted to bear against the trace or other strap of the harness for holding the blanket in place onv the horse.

In order that our invention may be fully understood we will first describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings and afterward point out the novelty in the annexed claim.

In said drawingsz-Figure l is a representation of a horse showing the manner of using our blanket pin for holding the blanket in place. Fig. 2 is a full size side elevation of the blanket pin. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same. thereof.

l is the point formed by tapering one end of the spring wire, and 2 is the keeper formed by bending intoa right-angled hook 3 the opposite end of the wire. The intermediate portion of the wire is bent into two spring coils providing the convolutions/t and extending from the convolutions is a'bent spring tongue Fig. 4 is a perspective View' 'of the trace which is clamped beneath the contracted portion '7. The outer convolutions of the coils provide springs for, pressing the projecting ends together, While the inner convolutions of the coils provide springs which press the tongue inward.

The manner'of applying the pin is clearly shown in Fig l. The pin is inserted in a blanket and secured by means of the keeper.

and the sprin g tongue slipped under the trace or otherpiece of the harness. Y

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture a horseblanket pin constructed of a single piece of wire, and comprising upwardly projecting ends inclined toward each other formed with a keeper 3, and a point l, respectively, the two spring coils 4 located at the base of the pin, and the upwardly projecting clamping tongue 5, extending in front of the ends from between the coils, and formed with an outbent portion 6 to facilitate the insertion of the trace; the pin having a contracted portion 7 beneath which the trace is retained; the outer convolutions of the coils providing springs for the ends, and the inner convolutions of the coils providing springs for pressing the tongue inwardand retaining the point in engagement with the keeper when the trace is inserted; substantially as described.

Witnesses:

J. AUBREY WRIGHT, G. A. WILT. 

